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Performance Artist Inspirational Quotes (1167)

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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
Yoko Ono
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To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!
Tristan Tzara
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At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
Yves Klein
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
Yoko Ono
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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
Bruce Nauman
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People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.
Charlemagne Palestine
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You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.
Claes Oldenburg
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I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
Shia LaBeouf
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My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.
Shia LaBeouf
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I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
Lydia Lunch
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It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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Art for me is the science of freedom.
Joseph Beuys
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More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.
Jim Dine
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There have been times where I have definitely felt like I was a john. As a pin-up photographer for ten years, when I was photographing men and women, to be honest, sometimes I felt like I was a john, especially when I was shooting guys because they - you know - they had to have big erections in the photos.
Annie Sprinkle
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Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.
Shia LaBeouf
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Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.
Kiki Smith
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I'm like a one-woman protest machine.
Lydia Lunch
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The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.
Yoko Ono
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I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
Marina Abramovic
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
Yoko Ono
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I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.
Claes Oldenburg
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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
Kiki Smith
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
Yoko Ono
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
Yoko Ono
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